Thursday, August 27, 2009

The pencils were really tight on this page. I was nervous and didn't want to leave anything to chance.

It's a favorite page of mine, even though it's almost all buildings and we don't see much of Batman. It created the effect I was aiming for; a slow pan shot of Gotham City, zooming in on one window, then following the muck down to the street.

You're not supposed to notice Batman when you first look at the next-to-last panel. You see him in the last panel and then go back and see him standing in the shadow in the previous shot. Sneaky...

In spite of my efforts to create a cinematic effect here, this is comics, not film... so I think going backwards like that is allowed.

Ughh...you stole my line. This has to rank up there as one of my top three pages you've ever done because of said building drawings. Yes, it has everything I love looking at in your pages, architecture, gargoyles, those great textures on crumbling concrete/rocks, hand lettering, shading, ugh...I could go on and on. For the longest time I looked for this page to pop up for sale to no avail. Thanks for sharing this treasure again.